The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-12

Edward Stanhope, secretary for state for
war: Sir Henry Holland, secretary of state
for the colonies. There is no change in the
other cabinet officers.
THE Rhode Island horseshoe works at
Valley Falls were burned Friday; also the
Northern Pacific shops at Fargo and the
Ernst brewery in Chicago.
THE failure of f. Duncan Sniffen, New
York, advertising agent, is announced The
liabilities amount to about 100000; the as
sets cannot be ascertained.
ADvICEs from Vienna say that the in
fuence exercised by Prince Bismarck is
having the effect of smoothing the relations
between Austria and Russia.
THE Duke of Bedford has RENTED the
whole amount of the rents of the farmers
and other tenants on his Bedfordshire es-
tate for the current half year.
THE village of Djemel, Algeria, was
severely shaken by an earthquake Friday.
A number of houses fell down seven per-
sons were killed and many hurt.
AT Oconmowoc. Wisconsin, an east bound
passenger train ran into a sleigh-load of
Ice laborers and instantly killed three men
and fatally injured several others.
A HEAVY snow-storm is reported from
England, blockading the roads and endan-
gering life. Nothing like it has been known,
except the one last month, for years.
JOIN Roach, the great ship-builder, died
Monday, aged seventy-three years. He was
native of Cork, Ireland, and came to
America poor lad at the age of sixteen.
AN accident on the Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern road Thursday wrecked a
passenger car and imprisoned passengers
beneath, but none were seriously injured.
BOGUS butter factories at Pttsburg and
Allegheny, Pa, have been closed, the law
prohibiting the manufacture and sale in
that state having been pronounced consti-
tutional.
JOSEPH Tosso, violinist and composer of
d" The Arkansas Traveller" died at Coving-
ton KY, Thursday, aged eghty-fve years.
We know of one man who will read this
item with interest.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL LUKE of the Saliva
ton Army was arraigned at Pittsield Mass,
Friday, for threatening to kill his wife. He
married her last year. She is rich and sup
ports him. The case was compromised by
his agreeing to leave town. She pays him
$500 to go.
SECRETARY MANNING has telegraphed in
structions to the collectors of customs at
Plattsburgh, n. Y, and Burlington, VT, to
prevent The importation of horses from
Montreal and vicinity until all traces of the
CHAMBERS epidemic now prevailing there has
disappeared.
REPUBLICAN nominations have been made
for United States senators as follows Michi-
gan, Colonel f. b. Stockbridge, to succeed
Mr.. Conger; Minnesota, Ex-Governor Cush-
man X. Davis, no succeed Mr.. Mcmillan.
Senator Cockrell has been renominated by
the democrats of Missouri.
GEORGE A. GOODMAN, a Somerville Mass
milkman, was murdered last week Tuesday
morning, it is supposed in his own stable
on Sargent avenue, and his dismembered
body was taken to Lexington and Lincoln
and scattered by the roadside. A young
rla, Eaug Ial lad
Goldman for his money.
BIG BLAzEs Bushs block at Bellefonte
Pa: loss $4,000. Hotel at Sherbrooke,
p. O.; loss S25,0 900 Kahneveiler's dry-goods
house at Lawrence, Kansas; loss SS5, 600
Highland Hotel at Belchertown, Mass.
loss $4,000. Seimer's woodwork factory,
etc, New York city; loss S125,000. G.. o.
Sawyer & Co.'s dry-goods house, Hartford
Ct; loss $4,000.
JUDGE HOGAN CHIPMAN of Detroit, re-
Gently elected to congress, astonished every
one Friday while on the bench by taking a
case away from the jury and giving a YER
dict for the defendant. During the day he
made repeated visits to his private room,
and his utterances became strange and in.
coherent until finally he addressed the
counsel in maudlin manner and proceeded
as above. When sober he is said to show
high talent.
A FAST train on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad was wrecked in collision at Tif-
fin. Ohio January 4. Twelve to fifteen per-
sons were killed and dozen injured. The
cars took fire and were destroyed and sew
eral persons were burned beyond recogni-
ton. All the mail and express matter was
destroyed. - BY collision of an eX-
press train with freight train near Nit
tineague, on the Boston & Albany road,
January 4, one person was killed and a
number severely injured. The cars were
burned and eighteen pouches of mail matter
from the West were destroyed.
THE nineteenth annual convention of the
Littleton Musical Association will COM
mence next Monday evening and continue
though the following Friday. DR.. III. r.
Palmer of New York will conduct Blais-
dell's orchestra and Mrs. Shepard will fur
furnish accompaniment, and Mrs. II. F..
Knowles (soprano), Miss Hattie G. McLain
(contralto), Mr.. j. e. Bartlett (tenor) and Mr..
Avon d. Saxon (baritone), all of Boston, are
the sooists announced to appear. George
G. Furber, corresponding secretary of the
association, will furnish all desired informa-
| ton concerning the festival.
THE responsibility for the Tifiin (Ohio)
railway accident is placed upon Freight
| Conductor Fletcher, who pulled out of a
siding four miles west of Republic without
orders, intending to make a siding at Re-
public for the passenger train. He missed
his calculation just one mile. Conductor
Fletcher says the engineer of the freight
train was drunk. His name is Kyler. He
| is now at Chicago junction. Ten of the
| killed are utterly unknown.